Word: tame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hype that surrounded its 10-month saga to find an American distributor, Lolita is, in the end, surprisingly tame. Overwhelming us with a cascade of lovely images, Lolita succeeds in being tragically moving despite the unsavory plot...
...visionary literature are hiding in the American heartland. Teenagers make up a near majority of the audience for DisInformation www.disinfo.com) a site that purveys antimainstream media politics and conspiracy theory to hundreds of thousands with a humor and skepticism that make Paul Krassner's Realist seem earnest and tame...
...hype that surrounded its 10-month saga to find an American distributor, Lolita is, in the end, surprisingly tame. Overwhelming us with a cascade of lovely images, Lolita succeeds in being tragically moving despite the unsavory plot. Indeed, the reason why Lyne's film works is that it focuses upon the potential of film to beautify even the grotesque. The effect is a little artificial, a spectacle designed to seduce the viewer into turning away from the moral problem of the film. In a time when films often try to say something about life, here is a film about...
...Philadelphia, Penn (5-2, 3-1) broke out to an early 21-0 lead en route to defeating Yale (3-4, 2-2) by a final of 34-20. The Quakers came back strong from a tough 58-51 loss at the hands of Brown last week to tame the pesky Bulldogs...
Anne-Marie Oreskovich '99 spoke about her research in knot theory and the Unique Prime Decomposition of Knots Theorem, which states, "No matter how ugly a knot is, provided that it's tame, [it] can be decomposed into a product of prime knots...